Monday, September 30, 2013

Rick Santorum appeared on EWTN's “Women Of Grace” program to shill for a movie titled “The Christmas Candle” being distributed by the production company of which the former Senator and presidential candidate is CEO.

Santorum shared that the electric light central to the storyline symbolizes man's over-reliance on technology and lack of reliance on God.

But without the electric light, isn't it doubtful that the cinematic tools would have been developed whereby the artists working under Santorum would be able to share this narrative vision with a wider audience?

More importantly, weren't the candles he lionizes as a beatifically superior conveyance of illumination at one time the cutting edge of technology?

As such, would the holier thing to do have been to simply sit in the dark waiting for the sun to rise the next morning in compliance with God's timetable rather than man's?

Thursday, September 26, 2013

It has been threatened that to complain about the weather is to murmur against God.

So where does degree of nitpicking end?

Taking this idea to its logical conclusion, is it murmuring against God to express dislike for a certain food that He has created?

It is an accepted postulate of Christian historiography that empires and potentates cannot rise without God allowing them to in the sense of at least not doing anything to block the ascension of these onto the world stage.

Thus, is one spitting in the face of the Almighty each time one expresses dissatisfaction with an elected or government official?

Often, those holding to this strict of a view regarding the sovereignty of God also believe in the idea of theocracy or theonomy where the Bible does not merely serve as a source inspiring the moral principles enacted into law but rather in its totality serves in its totality as the non-negotiable legal code.

So in such an idealized regime, would those verbalizing otherwise innocuous preferences about the prevailing atmospheric conditions be arrested for further interrogation?

If believers are to be so pent up and stifled that they can't even mention how they really feel about the weather, they are going to end up with stress ulcers and mental depression.

But I guess the upshot of that is that the clergy will be provided with additional fodder to heap condemnation up the congregation for the purposes of sewing the seeds for further spiritual manipulation.

If this is how and to the extent to which a pastor should control a church, the minister should not be dumbfounded when hardly sticks around the parish for very long.

In the 14th issue of the 2013 edition of the Accuracy In Media newsletter, SE Cupp’s conservative credentials are called into question because she is a woman that has never married nor spawned. Yet nothing is said about Gingrich’s three marriages, during two of which he was already holding tryouts for replacements in the sack before these unions were legally dissolved.

For decades, Americans have been conditioned to believe that what someone does in the privacy of the bedroom is no one else’s business.

Legislators and bureaucrats have now reversed themselves, deciding that these private matters should now become part of the public record.

The Obamacare reforms will compel doctors to collect dossiers detailing the sex lives of their respective patients. Unless one is seeking medical attention over puss oozing from one’s privates, these sordid details of one’s life should not be pried into by the medical establishment.

And what of those that insist that they lead chaste and celibate lives?

Will they end up being charged with perjury and forced to undergo more intrusive forms of scrutiny?

After all, the true freak these days is the one that does not live like a harlot or a nympho.

Monday, September 09, 2013

A gaggle of social media theologians
went at it on Facebook as to whether or not a minimalist sort of
Christian could profess a belief in Jesus but deny the existence of
Hell as a literal place of torment.

Granted, such a doctrinal combination
is a less than Biblically comprehensive and optimal one. Eternal
damnation is one of the most attested to of topics throughout the
Holy Bible.

If an individual professes such a
dogmatic formulation in an evangelization encounter, the soul of the
recipient of this deficient rendition of the Gospel could be
endangered.

One might conclude that simply passing
out of existence at the end of one's life wouldn't be too bad, simply
akin to falling asleep, and better than having to embrace the
limitations of Christianity in this life in order to prepare for the
next.

Yet it might be a step too far to
categorically declare that belief in Jesus but not in Hell is not
sufficient for one to slide through the Pearlie Gates.

It says in I Corinthians 15:1-4, “Now,
brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel...By this gospel you are
saved...For what I received I passed on to you of first importance:
that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he
was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the
Scriptures (NIV).”

One would hope that those sincerely
seeking redemption through Christ's completed work would come to
accept the whole counsel of God.

However, if even those pleading
sufficiency under Christ's shed blood will still be kept out of God's
Celestial City as a result of those areas in which they still fall
short of the glory of God, not a single one of us will have a
snowball's chance in the disputed region of the Afterlife of walking
those famed golden streets said to be guarded by United States
Marines.

Wednesday, September 04, 2013

According to fanatic homeschooler Kevin Swanson in his 9/3/13 Generations Radio podcast, those that place elderly family members needing assistance in nursing homes are, at least in spirit, complicit in euthanasia.

Instead, the truly pious individual takes care of such family members in their own home.

Those advocating this variety of stridency would then turn around and pitch a fit at those that would then not be able to afford to send their children to private school or be able to dedicate enough time to the pedagogy of the offspring with most of the attention going to address the increasingly complex health issues faced by the particular parent slipping into dementia or disability.

Secondly, if women are to be denied higher education as the Swansonites have suggested from time to time, how are these wives suppose to acquire this variety of expertise?

Thirdly, if the infirm needing around the clock nursing attention are suppose to be cared for in the homes of their children, what is to happen when the health of these frontline caretakers (who do not necessarily derive the same kind of endorphin high certain medical professionals seem to experience in these sorts of situations) find their own health compromised to the extent that they can neither oversee the wellbeing of their offspring nor their aging parents?

Monday, September 02, 2013

The gassing of Syrians by their fellow countrymen will rank among the great atrocities of the 21st century.

However, beyond a stern verbal condemnation, is it all that wise for the United States to get involved at this point?

Do we really know for certain who is the responsible party?

This conflict is not Star Wars or Lord of The Rings with clearly discernible protagonists and adversaries.

Either side could be capable of doing such a thing.

On the one hand, you have a brutal dictatorship. On the other side, the so-called “freedom fighters” have been accused of cannibalism and granting of a religious dispensation allowing for the raping of women caught up in the conflict.

Most importantly, if the Obama Administration decides to get involved militarily, does the President have the resolve to do what must be done?

For example, what if a campaign to eliminate Syrian weapons of mass destruction is conducted half-heartedly in the manner in which the President undertakes so many of his policy initiatives and America returns home before the task is completed?

Since whoever is responsible has no qualms about about killing their own people systematically and in the most horrible manners imaginable, what would prevent them from doing so to the people of the United States?

The border is pretty much a siv and, if Assad is indeed responsible as Obama is insisting to the civilized world, the President has already announced his intentions to allow that particular Middle Eastern tyrant to remain in power where the ensconced despot can plot revenge at leisure.